You Can Be Licked

A batch of inscriptions for you today, these come from the front and rear of "Immensee" by Theodor Storm. Published by Merrill, 1912.

First image:

If you want to find your rhetoric, you'll have to hunt.

Gee: but you think you are somebody but Oh! my you can be licked

Ja,
Signed (?)

Second image:

When you can talk about something respectable for a little girl to listen to  come (?) and you (?) have the opportunity

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